Apr 10, 2003 - Sale 1966

Sale 1966 - Lot 97

Price Realized: $ 3,220
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(HAIRDRESSING.) Stewart, James. Plocacosmos; or, The Whole Art of Hair Dressing; wherein is contained, Ample Rules for the Young Artizan, more particularly for Ladies Women, Valets, &c. &c. as well as Directions for Persons to dress their own Hair. Engraved frontispiece printed in sanguine; 20 (instead of 10) engraved plates of period hair styles. [6], 435 pages. Large 8vo, late 19th-/early 20th-century brown levant gilt by s. david, with mauve levant doublures and floral silk brocade endleaves, front joint rubbed; light dampstains on a few hand-colored plates; morocco-edged board slipcase. London: Printed for the Author, 1782
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first edition. extra-illustrated with a hand-colored extra suite of the plates.